Get access to detailed technical information about Acrobat and Reader's security functionality here. The information is intended to help developers, administrators, and end users in enterprise environments. Learn to deploy, configure, and use the Acrobat family of products in digital signatures, encryptions, and other security-related workflows.

Acrobat and Reader also provide a variety of features for integrating 3rd party security products, custom plugins, and customized business processes. These integration points include security handlers for LiveCycle policies and password security, digital ID and certificate, and APIs for digital signatures PKCS#11, MSCAPI, JavaScript, as well as others.

Adminstrator and Technical User Guides

IT-centric documentation for administrators describing configuration and deployment details now resides in the Enterprise Toolkit.

Specifications and Developer Documentation

Know the guidelines for programmatic generation of standardized appearances for signatures in PDF documents. Check out earlier versions.

Adobe Acrobat validates a digital signature in accordance with the X.509 standard and RFC 3280. This document is intended for anyone interested in evaluating Acrobat compliance with those features. The document includes test files for those interested in repeating the tests.

Get guidelines, as developers, to develop a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) for use with Acrobat on the Windows® platform. The CSP makes it possible for MSCAPI-compliant applications to access digital IDs through an API.